The NAMRI | SME Founders Lecture was established to honor individuals who served on the NAMRC Scientific Committee from 1973 to 1981 and those members who founded NAMRI | SME when it was officially established, as well as other distinguished contributors to manufacturing who have been actively involved with NAMRC.
Lecturers
2024
Numerical Modeling of Manufacturing Processes: A Historical Perspective
Rajiv Shivpuri, PhD, FSME
2023
How Did We Get Here, and What Are We Going to Do?
Scott Smith, PhD, FSME
2022
On the 50th anniversary of NAMRI – A time to reflect
Shiv G. Kapoor, PhD, FSME, 2003 NAMRI | SME President, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kornel F. Ehmann, PhD, FSME, 2004-2005 NAMRI | SME President, Northwestern University
2021
Warren R. DeVries, PhD, FSME, “A Student’s Perspective on the Early Days of NAMRC"
2019
Chi-Hung Shen, PhD, FSME, “A Reminiscence of the Great Machining Years (1980s – 2000s)”
2018
John C. Ziegert, PhD, FSME, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Prospects in Manufacturing Engineering"
2017
Don A. Lucca, PhD, FSME, “On the Path to Ultraprecision Machining”
2016
Ralph L. Resnick, FSME, "Standing on the Shoulders of NAMRI/SME Giants"
2015
David A. Dornfeld*, PhD, FSME, University of California at Berkeley, "Advances in Manufacturing Over 43 Years of NAMRC"
*1990-91 NAMRI/SME Past President Passes Away at Age 66
2014
Founders Lecture and M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal of ASME/SME Recipient Presentation
Dean Bartles, PhD, FSME, Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, “Riding the US ‘Manufacturing Renaissance’ Wave: How to ‘hang ten’ in doing your part!”
2013
Delcie R. Durham, PhD, FSME, PE, University of South Florida, “The 30-Year Trek to Sustainable, Scalable Manufacturing: Are We There Yet?”
2012
J T. Black, PhD, FSME, Auburn University, “The Engineer’s High Privilege”
2011
Ranga Komanduri, PhD, FSME, Oklahoma State University, “How to Conduct Research—The Rumford Way”
2010
Yoram Koren, ScD, FSME, University of Michigan, “Creating the New Manufacturing Paradigm for the New Century”
2009
Klaus J. Weinmann, Michigan Technological University, “A Few Observations Regarding Force Calculations for a Simple Forming Process”
2008
Stephen Malkin, ScD, FSME, University of Massachusetts
2007
Marvin F. DeVries, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “NAMRC – Ruminations and Revelations”
2006
Betzalel Avitzur, PhD, Lehigh University, “Road Map for Tube Making: From Tube Sinking to Tube Drawing with Floating Plugs”
2005
Geoffrey Boothroyd, PhD, FSME, Boothroyd Dewhurst Inc.
2004
Alan Male, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Kentucky
2003
Lucjan Kops, ScD, McGill University
2002
John Schey, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Waterloo, “Whither Manufacturing”
2001
Milton C. Shaw, PhD, FSME, PE, Arizona State University
2000
Taylan Altan, PhD, FSME, Ohio State University
1999
No record of Founders Lecture. May have been replaced by these “Special Lectures” since NAMRC was held at UC-Berkeley.
Special Lecture
Joseph Frisch, University of California at Berkeley
Special Lecture
Erich G. Thomsen, FSME, PE, University of California at Berkeley, “A Short Review of Metal Processing at UC Berkeley Since WWII”
1998
John G. Bollinger, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Wisconsin, “Visioneering Manufacturing for the Twenty-First Century”
1997
Serope Kalpakjian, PhD, FSME, Illinois Institute of Technology, “NAMRC I to NAMRC XXV: Reflections of a Founding Member”
1996
Jiri Tlusty, PhD, FSME, McMaster University, “Machine Tool Research”
1995
Branimir von Turkovich, PhD, FSME, PE, University of Vermont, “Fifty Years of Chip Making”
1994
First occasion of luncheon lecture by a founding member
William B. Rice, PhD, FSME, PE, Queens University, and Marvin F. DeVries, PhD, FSME, CMfgE, PE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “From NAMRC to NAMRI – A History of the Early Days”
